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Wounaan language information


Wounaan
Noanamá
Woun Meu
Native toColombia, Panama
EthnicityEmbera-Wounaan
Native speakers
10,800 (2007)[1]
Language family
Chocoan
  • Wounaan
Language codes
ISO 639-3noa
Glottologwoun1238
ELPWaunana

The Wounaan language, also known as Noanamá and Woun Meu, is a Chocoan language, with around 10,000 speakers on the border between Panama and Colombia.

  1. ^ Wounaan at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

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Mennonites in Colombia

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notably Embera-Wounaan. These converts do not differ much from other Protestants in Colombia. Ethnic Mennonites have their own customs and language (Plautdietsch)...

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Infí, and Cupí. Social contact and intermarriage with the neighboring Wounaan is commonplace. The Basuradó dialect is spoken on the Basuradó River in...

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Comarca

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an area with a substantial Amerindian population. Four comarcas (Emberá-Wounaan, Guna Yala, Naso Tjër Di, and Ngöbe-Buglé) exist as equivalent to provinces...

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Indigenous languages of the Americas

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Choco

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department Choco languages, family of Native American languages, in Colombia and Panama Chocó people, former name of the Embera-Wounaan, a group of semi-nomadic...

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Panamanians

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language. About 93% of the population speak Spanish as their first language, though many citizens speak both English and Spanish or native languages,...

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Provinces of Panama

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Herrera Los Santos Panamá Oeste Panamá Veraguas Guna Yala Emberá-Wounaan Emberá-Wounaan Naso Tjër Di Ngäbe-Buglé Madugandí Wargandí Category Unitary state...

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Guna Yala

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north by the Caribbean Sea, on the south by the Darién Province and Emberá-Wounaan, on the east by Colombia, and on the west by the province of Colón. 32...

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List of indigenous languages of South America

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List of autonomous areas by country

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Azad Kashmir (1974)  Panama comarca indígena indigenous territory Emberá-Wounaan (1983) · Guna de Madungandí (1996)  · Kuna de Wargandí (2000)  · Guna Yala...

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Autonomous administrative division

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Retrieved 2019-08-30. Faroese and Greenlandic are seen as official regional languages in the self-governing territories belonging to Denmark. "Greenland". International...

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Batrachotoxin

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use of this toxin is by the Noanamá Chocó and Emberá Chocó of the Embera-Wounaan of western Colombia for poisoning blowgun darts for use in hunting. Poison...

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Panama

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population includes seven ethnic groups: the Ngäbe, Kuna (Guna), Emberá, Buglé, Wounaan, Naso Tjerdi (Teribe), and Bri Bri. Most Afro-Panamanians live on the Panama-Colón...

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List of Latin American artists

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poet Carlos Francisco Chang Marín, writer (1922–2012) Chafil Cheucarama, Wounaan painter, carver, and illustrator Guillermo Trujillo, painter (1927–2018)...

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